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Green Lantern Vol II #180 page 16

Artists: Luke Ross (Penciller) , Rodney Ramos (Inker)

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Title:	Green Lantern Vol II #180 page 16
Artist:	Luke Ross (Penciller)
Artist:	Rodney Ramos (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	466
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Added to Site:	4/5/2010
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...NO BREWS!!! Actually, these two pages were from a Green Lantern storyline that was an extension of the term "Women in Refrigerators", which was coined by writer Gail Simone as a name for a website. It refers to an incident in Green Lantern #54 (1994), written by Ron Marz, in which Kyle Rayner, the title hero, comes home to his apartment to find that his girlfriend, Alex DeWitt, had been killed by the villain Major Force and stuffed in a refrigerator. In 2004, Marz revisited this scene. Green Lantern found what he thought to be his mother's severed head in his oven; this was later revealed to be the head of a mannequin (this is part of the storyline pictured here). This storyline was revisited a third time in "Blackest Night", as the "Black Lantern Refrigerator" appeared (seriously) to torment Kyle. Cases of 'Women in Refrigerators Syndrome' or "Fridging" deal with a gruesome injury or murder of a female character at the hands of a supervilliam, usually as a motivating personal tragedy for a male superhero to whom the victim is connected. The death or injury of the female character then helps cement the hatred between the hero and the villain responsible. Kyle Rayner is a particularly cited example of this case, due to the common tragedies that befall women in his life.The term also encompasses the depowerment of female comic book characters as a plot device (yes, I though of all the words above myself...ok I typed them...OK I CUT AND PASTED THEM!!!). The complete list for WIF may be found at the website http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir/women.html. Looking at this list, I found a few examples that actually crossed over into the comic art I collect: Dove II (dead), Power Girl (depowered, magically impregnated, made vulnerable to unprocessed natural materials... like sharp sticks), Supergirl, PAD version (lost her invisibility and most of her shapeshifting), Scarlet Witch (children 'die'/vanish/are lost because they are figments of her imagination). I will be using these four to start my next few threads on Page 23, and what a tangle of threads it will be (oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive...so quit practicing and start deceiving).

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